How To Edit A Video Like GAWX Art

so today I'm going to show you how to make a video just like gaw art so I grabbed my camera my notebook and my pen and I got to work until I realized I suck at drawing so I'm just going to focus on how to edit a video like gxart instead now he already has a video breaking down his own filming so I'm really going to focus in on the editing and there's five main things that he does but first if you don't know gax this guy is insane he's only 20 and he's making videos with enough quality that you expect to see them on Netflix not YouTube but the best part is that how he actually does this isn't Out Of Reach you can do it too and I'm going to show you how starting off by adding a little bit of depth to your shot everyone wants the Cinematic look and the best bang for the buck to do this by far more than new cameras new lenses or new editing computers is [Music] this fog or Haze it's maybe the most underrated part of gawk style the fact that he uses atmospheric smoke or Haze to really give some depth to a shot here's the before shot of me without any fog and with no changes to the camera settings this is what adding a little bit of fog does it's night and day the best part is that renting a fog machine is usually pretty cheap or you can just buy fog in a can for like 15 bucks not nothing but a big help but what happens if you don't have access to rent one of those well you can actually get a similar look using an overlay adding a fog overlay and setting the camera to blend mode like screen can help it to interact in a way that looks natural on camera and if you use tools like rotor brush you can actually add fog in front of and behind your subject we've actually got an entire tutorial on how to use the rotor brush tool but the true true secret is just use the sunbeams effect for Final Cut I'm a Premier Pro user but this one effect is the entire reason why I keep Final Cut installed on myp laptop basically you can drop it onto your clip and extend the sunbeams out and adjust the color and intensity and it takes the brightest light source in your scene and creates realistic moving light beams that actually interact with your footage I'm honestly Blown Away by how close it gets to the real looking shot it's shockingly good so good in fact that this first example I showed you with the fog machine I lied it was actually using the sunbeams effect but fog real or fake isn't the only thing gox uses to make a shot feel more cinematic he also uses something that's a little bit more drag and drop which is fake film grain wait how do I know that his film grain is fake well because I know that the camera that he used to use was the Sony a73 and then he moved on to the fx3 which are both digital cameras so the film grain you see in all his shots is fake you're a phony now I know that you know that just adding film grain to your footage doesn't magically make it better but then why is gax going out of his way to add it to his videos well it's because ga's entire style at least to me can be described as is messy organic and beautiful and film grain real or fake really lends itself to that feeling so it's not that film grain makes your shots better but for a filmmaker like GX it's one more thing that adds to the feeling that he's going for and here's how you can add that feeling too you can actually just add it natively in Premiere by creating an adjustment layer adding the noise effect and unchecking Ed color noise now raise it up to about 50 and it's going to look way too much but that's okay set your blend mode to Overlay and then reduce the opacity to something below 20% but my favorite solution is just use our Premier Pro plugin which has a bunch of presets and even lets you choose what kind of grain you actually want to apply but the third thing GX does is something that's a little bit more simple and it's also something that you can use in every single future video and that's just to add a tone curve in your color grading but it's probably a little bit different than you were expecting most people just think oh yeah a tone curve just doing this right making this little s shape wrong if you look at a still frame of one of his videos you can see that it gets so dark in times at sections that all detail is lost and it's pure black or is it because if we take a Color Picker and then see the color value that we get it's actually dark gray and I can put actual pure black beside it to show you how light it actually is the secret gox is using is a color grading trick that mimics analog film cameras which have a much more natural rollof to their exposure levels and that don't make black pure black typically referred to as milky blacks if you've looked into color grading at all you might have heard of the S curve which is basically just taking the exposure curve from any basic editing software raising the highlights dropping the Shadows slightly so that you get this s shape which is where the name comes from what this does is give the highlights and shadows more contrast but most people just leave it there but there's still more you can do drop your whites down a bit and add a bit more of a natural rollof around here and the same thing for your black sections raise them up a bit so that they're not pure black and have the Shadows drop down here so that they're only slightly higher than the deepest blacks and with that simple change we go from this to this and the better job that you do shooting your footage with proper exposure to start with the more benefit you'll get from grading like this but if you're really lazy like me then you can just use software like Da Vinci resolve or Premiere Pro which each have a matching tool that lets you just steal the color grade from any sample frame you want but there's something else that GX does that I bet you weren't expecting I was watching one of his behind the scenes videos and I noticed at one part he left his editing timeline open on his screen and this is what I saw now let me ask you something when you look at this shot of his timeline what do you see I'll tell you what I see his audio section of his timeline is way bigger than his video section this is something that I see time and time again with high quality filmmakers everybody thinks that your timeline is going to look like this the better that you get but the truth is is that it starts to look more like this audio mixing music and sound effects are king and the more that you start to close your eyes and just listen the more you realize that a lot of the Cinematic nature of Go's style doesn't just come from the way it looks but the way that it sounds every single action movement or plot Point has corresponding sound of effects associated with it helping you not just to see what's happening but to actually feel it and there's a few reoccurring things that I notice in his audio workflow he loves using this ringing ttis effect like a riser which basically slowly builds up and intensifies until you really want to punctuate a moment and whenever there's movement he likes to use a deep whooshing sound to really help you feel the movement and Music Choice might just be the most important part of the process music in my opinion this is the most important part of the process and if you need a good place to start with his particular feel and genre and the literal things that you want to type in to search for some key wordss would be classical orchestral at times Jazzy and he seems to be a really big fan of electr funk I've linked to some of my personal favorite gax inspired tracks in the description below and I've created an entire collection of video and audio assets to help your videos feel a little bit more like his GX truly is a cinematic genius and if you wanted to learn how to edit like other YouTube Geniuses I've got an entire playlist right over here

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Length: 7min 4sec (424 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 12 2024